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Laura Rendon, professor and chair of the Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State, identified four
categories of underserved students in her recent paper for the National
Postsecondary Education Cooperative titled "Reconceptualizing Success for
Underserved Students in Higher Education."

Laura Rendon, professor and chair of the Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State, identified four
categories of underserved students in her recent paper for the National
Postsecondary Education Cooperative titled "Reconceptualizing Success for
Underserved Students in Higher Education."

IPRT will get own director

The Institute for Physical Research and Technology will get its own
director, J\
ohn Brighton, ISU vice president for research and economic development,
said re\
cently. Tom Barton, director of both IPRT and the Ames Laboratory, has
returne\
d to the ISU faculty, and the search for an Ames Lab director already is
under \
way. The search for the new IPRT director will focus on internal
candidates. \
IPRT is a network of scientific research centers at ISU.

More local, organic foods soon may be on the ISU menu

Geoffroy, Roth on 'Talk of Iowa'

President Gregory Geoffroy and Jim Roth, Distinguished professor of
veterinary microbiology and preventive medicine, will be guests on the
Feb. 27 installment of Talk of Iowa on Iowa Public Radio. The live,
call-in show airs from 11 a.m. to noon locally on AM 640.

ISU in session Monday

ISU officials anticipate that Iowa State University will be open and
classes will be in session Monday, Feb. 26. However, those travelling
to campus are urged to put safety first. Faculty and supervisors are
asked to accommodate those who cannot attend class or get to work due
to travel difficulties. On campus, officials report that streets, sidewalks
and parking lots are generally clear, and CyRide is operating.

The Feb. 25 Concert and Symphonic Band concert has been rescheduled for March 2 (7 p.m., Martha-Ellen Tye
Recital Hall).

The Ames city snow ordinance is in effect. Vehicles on snow routes must be moved.

Weather cancellations, announcements

Parks Library will close at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 24.

Cirque du Soleil DELIRIUM (Feb. 24, Hilton) has been postponed to Feb. 25
at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 24; tickets will be honored for the Sunday evening
performance. For those who prefer to attend the Feb. 25 matinee
at 2 p.m., tickets will be exchanged for best available seats. More
info: www.center.iastate.edu, (515) 294-8808.

The Feb. 25 Concert and Symphonic Band concert has been rescheduled for March 2 (7 p.m., Martha-Ellen Tye
Recital Hall).

The Ames city snow ordinance goes into effect at 11
p.m. Feb. 24. Vehicles on snow routes must be moved.

March 25 concert postponed

Due to weather forecasts for Feb. 25, the Concert and Symphonic Band
concert has been rescheduled for March 2 (7 p.m., Martha-Ellen Tye
Recital Hall).

Iowa State MBAs aim to be Big 12's best

A team of Iowa State MBA students was judged to be one of the
two best among Big 12 North Division schools in last weekend's MBA case
competition at the Gerdin Business Building. It will now compete in the Big 12 "Final
Four" round at the University of Oklahoma March 9-11.

Wanted: High school students to fight off computer hackers

Organizers of Iowa's second High School Cyber Defense
Competition are looking for more teams willing to stay up all night to
defend their networks from hackers. The competition will be overnight from
May 18 to 19 at Iowa State University. See www.iasga.org for more
information.

ISU anthropologist's study is first to report chimps hunting with
tools

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jill Pruetz led a study
finding chimpanzees in Senegal are regularly making and using spears to hunt other
primates -- making it the first to report habitual tool use by non-humans while hunting other
vertebrates.

Welch Avenue to be covered in snow for skiing and snowboarding
competition

Funds for new endowed chair boost software engineering program

A $1.5 million commitment from Iowa State alumnus Long V. Nguyen and his wife Kimmy of McLean, Va., will create an endowed chair in software engineering in the department of computer science. "Iowa State University is committed to leadership in this exciting discipline," said ISU President Gregory Geoffroy. "This chair will help us recruit an established star in software engineering to support these efforts."

Abdul-Aziz returns to campus this week

Zaid Abdul-Aziz, an All-American Iowa State basketball player under the name Don Smith from 1966 to 1968, will return to campus Feb. 20-23 to speak, sign his book and be the guest in the Cyclone Alley student spirit section for the Feb. 21 men's basketball game.

Former ambassador Joseph Wilson will speak at Iowa State

Air Force biological defense expert and veterinarian to speak on
bioterrorism Feb. 26

A U.S. Air Force public health officer, who was honored by the former
Republic of Zaire for his efforts in controlling their Ebola outbreak,
will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26, in the Sun Room, Memorial
Union. Col. Donald L. Noah is an international expert on protecting
animals and humans against biological terrorism. He will talk about "The
Threat of Bioterrorism: A 'One-Medicine' Perspective."

New facility at Iowa State focuses on student academic success

The Hixson-Lied Student Success Center, a new facility designed to help
Iowa State students perform better in the classroom, will officially be
dedicated during a ceremony Friday, Feb. 23, at 1:30 p.m.

In Iowa State University laboratory tests, adding ultrasonic
treatment to soy processing has increased the release of soy proteins by 46
percent. The treatment has also boosted sugar yields by 50 percent.

Snow ordinance in effect

The City of Ames Snow Ordinance went into effect at 11 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12.
Vehicles parked along snow routes (marked by red, white and blue signs) must be moved or they will be ticketed and towed.
Move vehicles
to off-street parking or to streets that are not designated snow routes.
To assist in plowing efforts all Ames residents are asked to remove parked vehicles from residential streets. However, only those on snow routes are REQUIRED to move them.
The snow ordinance remains in effect until the
streets are completely plowed from curb to curb, AND it has stopped
snowing.

'Home Ground' creative writing symposium is Feb. 18-20

The third annual free public Symposium on Wildness will be held
at ISU Sunday-Tuesday, Feb. 18-20. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, it will feature workshops,
panel discussions, concerts and readings centering around "Home Ground:
Language for an American Landscape."

Top-ranked fans

Cyclone fans continue to keep Iowa State women's basketball among the
elite in home game attendance. The Hilton crowd currently sits seventh
in national rankings, with an average attendance of more than 8,500
fans per game, according to statistics compiled by the University of
Wisconsin. Cyclones have ranked among the top 10 in this category
for the past eight years.

Lt. Gov. Patty Judge visits Iowa State labs

Hans van Leeuwen, a professor of civil, construction and
environmental engineering, shows Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge how his research
team is growing fungus in a co-product of ethanol production to make more
valuable products.

A study co-authored by Iowa State University assistant
professor of psychology Douglas Gentile and published in the February
issue of the Archives of Surgery found that laparoscopic surgeons who
previously played video games made far fewer errors and were
considerably faster than their non-playing colleagues when
participating in a top laparoscopic training program.

Book chronicles life and times of Iowa State

In the news

Chimps Observed Making Their Own Weapons

Washington Post

Research led by ISU anthropology professor Jill Pruetz finding
that chimpanzees in Senegal have been fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the hand-crafted
tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly
weapons ever observed in animals other than humans -- is featured in a
story by Rick Weiss.

Hunting chimps may change view of human evolution

Reuters, abcnews.com

Chimpanzees have been seen using spears to hunt bush babies,
researchers -- including ISU's Jill Pruetz -- said on Thursday in a study that demonstrates a whole new
level of tool use and planning by our closest living relatives.

Gschneidner to National Academy of Engineering

ISU Distinguished Professor Karl A. Gschneidner Jr. has been elected to
the National Academy of Engineering. The materials science professor and
senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory was
cited for contributions to the science and technology of rare-earth
materials. He is among 64 members and 9 foreign associates elected to
the academy this year.

Parade of presidential candidates, national media has
begun

Public Broadcasting System

An interview with University Professor of Political Science Steffen
Schmidt and footage from a rally on Saturday with members of the ISU
student organization, "Students for Barack Obama," will be featured on Monday, Feb. 12, on "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." The show airs daily at 5:30 p.m. on
Iowa Public Television stations.

New director named for Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Dr. Sally Brown Prickett has been named director of the Dr. W. Eugene
and Linda Lloyd Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Iowa State. Prickett,
who started Feb. 1, manages the clinical services, biosecurity and
business operations of the hospital, which has a staff of more than 110
and treats approximately 18,500 cases annually.

ISU's College of Design can move forward on building addition,
says Board of Regents

Statistician's work highlighted on "Law and Order"

A Feb. 6 episode of the NBC crime drama "Law & Order: Special
Victim's Unit" will focus on a controversial EPA rule allowing
intentional dosing of humans in pesticide experiments.
ISU statistician Alicia Carriquiry, part of a scientific committee that probed
the practice, is listed in the program credits.